Most paradoxes either stem from the misunderstanding of a topic, or aren't really paradoxes. However, here is a paradox that seems to contradict logic itself. What's going on here? And what does the liar paradox have to do with computer science? #some2
From playlist Summer of Math Exposition 2 videos
Do we know what others are thinking or feeling? Indeed, do we even know that others have thoughts or feelings at all? If so, how? Jack Reynolds gives an introductory talk on this topic and considers two main types of response to the “problem of other minds”: those that are inferential in n
From playlist Philosophy of Mind
Does Consciousness Exist? (By William James)
William James' wonderful 1904 essay "Does Consciousness Exist?" where he puts forward a kind of neutral monist view of the mind. This was read by D.E. Wittkower and is from LibriVox. The paper itself comes from William James' "Essays in Radical Empiricism", which was published posthumously
From playlist Philosophy of Mind
Zeno and Anti-Zeno effects in Quantum Mechanics by Nalini Dattatreya Gurav
21 November 2016 to 10 December 2016 VENUE Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore Quantum Theory has passed all experimental tests, with impressive accuracy. It applies to light and matter from the smallest scales so far explored, up to the mesoscopic scale. It is also a necessary ingredie
From playlist Fundamental Problems of Quantum Physics
Why It Might Be Your Body - Not Your Mind
One of the paradoxes of trying to understand our minds is that, at particular moments, we need to acknowledge that what passes through them may have very little to do with the workings of these minds themselves but rather our bodies. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first
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How Is the ADHD Brain Different?
If you’re online, you may notice that conversations around ADHD are everywhere. You may even be starting to wonder, as you flick from one app to the next, that you yourself may have ADHD. So in Part 1 of this series about ADHD, Julian explores what this disorder is, what’s happening in the
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A World of Pure Experience (By William James)
William James' wonderful 1904 essay "A World of Pure Experience" read by Carl Manchester and from LibriVox. The paper comes from William James' "Essays in Radical Empiricism", which was published posthumously in 1912. Note, this is a version of an upload from the previous channel. The audi
From playlist Philosophy of Mind
The Secrets of Other People's Relationships
Those of us in relationships suffer from an ignorance of what other people’s relationships are really like. We should recognise that episodes of difficulty and ambivalence are not the exception, but the norm. Sign up to our mailing list to receive 10% off your first order with us: https:/
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NIPS 2011 Learning Semantics Workshop: Towards More Human-like Machine Learning of Word Meanings
Learning Semantics Workshop at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Towards More Human-like Machine Learning of Word Meanings by Josh Tenenbaum Josh Tenenbaum is a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Him and his colleagues in the C
From playlist NIPS 2011 Learning Semantics Workshop
How to Find Out What You Really Really Think and Why...
It’s one of the great paradoxes of mental life that we’re often unable to access our true feelings about important matters. We may settle, in haste or fear, on the most obvious answers. We ignore our deep truths first and foremost because we aren’t trained to solicit them. Sign up to our
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When do neurons represent true? - Joey Velez Ginorio
Joey Velez Ginorio outlines some of his research on using programming language semantics to grapple with some of the deepest conceptual problems in neuroscience, such as the mapping problem. How can we, even in the simplest neural networks, understand the high level logical operations? Joe
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22. Edward P. Jones, The Known World
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In the first of her two lectures on Edward P. Jones's The Known World, Professor Hungerford begins from the novel's title, asking what counts as knowledge in the novel and why knowledge is central to the story. This leads to related questions: wh
From playlist The American Novel Since 1945 with Amy Hungerford
Gordon Graham - Art and Epistemology
Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Can art go beyond the pleasures of experience to convey knowledge or even understanding? If so, what could be the kinds of knowledge or understanding made manifest by art? Conversely, can epistemology help di
From playlist Art Seeking Understanding - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
In Praise of Introspective People
However healthy it often is to try to fit in and assume we must just be like everyone else, there are also benefits in sometimes accepting that we might in the end not be and this needn’t be a cause of concern or shame. Sign up to our mailing list to receive 10% off your first order with
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Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit - Introduction (Bernstein - 2007)
Professor J.M. Bernstein introduces Hegel and discusses his initial moves and philosophical project, including the departure from Kant and Kantianism. This is the first lecture in his 2007 course on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, known as "the Bernstein Tapes". Note, the audio has been h
From playlist Hegel
Jaron Lanier - What's the Meaning of Consciousness?
For more videos and information on Jaron Lanier click here http://bit.ly/19Ttdpa For more videos on the meaning of consciousness click here http://bit.ly/1xJgsZx What does consciousness mean? What place does it have in the universe?
From playlist Understanding Consciousness - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
Uncertainty Principle - Klim Efremenko
Klim Efremenko Tel-Aviv University; Member, School of Mathematics April 23, 2013 Informally, uncertainty principle says that function and its Fourier transform can not be both concentrated. Uncertainty principle has a lot of applications in areas like compressed sensing, error correcting c
From playlist Mathematics
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How does physics disrupt our intuitive understanding of time?
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From playlist Science Unplugged: Time
14. Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality
Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Today we take a bridge into the twentieth century, constructed by Nietzsche, Freud, and Weber's critical theory. Each author is different in important ways, but they also agree on two crucial points: we must subject our consciousness and as
From playlist Foundations of Modern Social Theory with Iván Szelényi